Program Coordinator
Summary
Program Coordinator at a Los Angeles family crisis center managing all shelter operations, supervising staff and volunteers, overseeing case documentation, and coordinating community outreach for programs serving runaway/homeless youth, domestic violence and trafficking survivors, and homeless prevention clients.
1736 Family Crisis Center offers crisis intervention services, including four 24- hour hotlines, as well as longer-term services in client advocacy and outpatient psychotherapy. The residential counseling and support services include shelter programs for (1) runaway and homeless adolescents, (2) domestic violence and human trafficking victims and their children (emergency and transitional programs) (3) Homeless prevention and rapid re-housing services for the general population and Veterans and their families. Community outreach programs are provided to educate the public and prevent mental-health problems in the general population and in targeted groups to at-risk populations.
Responsibilities
- Manages all shelter activities; reviews all shelter cases in all aspects, taking responsibility for quality and timeliness of all shelter services. Responsible for all assigned record keeping and documentation relevant to the agency
- Attends meetings and provides outreach as directed; conducts weekly staff meetings and other shelter meetings as necessary. Interviews, trains, and supervises shelter staff, trainees, interns, and volunteers
- Ensures adherence to agency polices/procedures and to professional ethics and good conduct on the part of the staff, volunteers, and students.
- Makes recommendations to the senior management regarding development of shelter services, policies affecting shelter services, and related matters
- Ensures that the duties necessary to maintaining continuous shelter coverage are carried out (such as shelter coverage, house maintenance and supply operations, assessment of need for volunteers, maintenance of contacts with community resources, and other duties as appropriate)
- Other duties as assigned